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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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185-year-old paintings reveal new snake species in Tamil Nadu

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

World’s oldest water found in Canada, Oxford researchers say it dates back 1.6 billion years

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

NASA’s Perseverance rover sends back laser sounds from Mars

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

There’s a 2nd kind of fusion happening in the Sun, scientists confirm through neutrinos

The detection of these neutrinos shows that while the Sun is primarily powered by proton fusion, bigger & hotter stars are powered by ‘CNO cycle’ fusion.

Solar Orbiter captures closest photos of Sun ever taken, scientists discover ‘camp fires’

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

First highest-resolution images of Sun are here, reveal never-seen-before features

Sun’s images captured by Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope located in Hawaii show a desert-like surface divided into discrete gigantic cells, covered with plasma layer.

Crowdfunding helps pull off new space feat – a satellite propelled in orbit by Sun

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them.

Lunar mission in place, ISRO planning to study the sun in 2020

ISRO chairman K Sivan said they are planning to launch Aditya-L1 to study the Sun's corona, and are also considering an interplanetary mission to Venus.

Get ready for a special full moon & meteor shower tonight

The winter solstice will occur at 3.53am IST, Saturday. A full moon appearing just after a solstice is not common — the next time this happens will be in 2029.

First moon outside the solar system found. It’s the size of Neptune

The ‘exomoon’ was found orbiting exoplanet Kepler-1625b — around 4,000 light years away from earth — by two Columbia University astronomers.

On Camera

Manipur has seen too much pain to be seduced by promises

Nehru learned the truth the hard way when 3,000 Nagas walked out of his 1953 rally. The people of the Northeast aren’t easily seduced by baubles.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.